A Turn in the South Paperback - 1990

About this book

From the jacket flap

In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill.

First Edition Identification

Viking Press published a First UK Edition, First Printing in London, 1989. The edition is bound in red boards with silver gilt. 

The Franklin Library published a First Edition, Limited Edition in Pennsylvania, 1989. The edition was bound in Full Leather, with gold-gilt cover illustrations and page edges, along with a bound-in silk bookmark. 

Alfred A. Knopf published the First US Edition, First Printing in New York, 1989.

Media reviews

"Naipaul's chapters honor the diversity that marks the South.... Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways...fascinating and revealing." -- Eugene D. Genovese, New Republic

"His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance.... No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality." -- Atlantic Monthly

Citations

• Publishers Weekly, 01/19/1990, Page 0